Founding Medical Director Designate

Compensation

Healveda Care is currently in its pre-launch development phase and is not offering a cash retainer during the initial 12-week term.

The selected physician will receive an equity-based, deferred-cash, or combined compensation arrangement. The exact compensation, vesting terms, payment triggers, ownership rights, tax treatment, termination consequences, and treatment of completed work must be documented in a signed agreement before any services begin.

This is not an unpaid volunteer position. No physician will be expected to begin work based on an informal promise of future compensation.

A separate compensated clinical-services agreement will be required before the physician provides patient care, orders laboratory testing, reviews patient-specific results, supervises clinical personnel, manages abnormal findings, or assumes formal Medical Director responsibilities.

About Healveda Care

Healveda Care is building a coordinated, accountable, and outcomes-focused model for people living with autoimmune, hormonal, thyroid, and other complex chronic conditions.

Our existing foundation includes:

A community of more than 10,000 people
More than 200 verified paying users
A network of approximately 40 health experts
An established candidate inventory of laboratory tests for the autoimmune program
A founder-led model centered on longitudinal outcomes, patient safety, measurable follow-through, and responsible access to emerging treatments

The candidate laboratory inventory has already been assembled. Healveda Care is not seeking a physician to disregard the existing work and begin from nothing.

The physician must, however, retain independent clinical judgment and have the authority to recommend that a test be added, removed, deferred, repeated, restricted, or used only when clinically indicated. Patient safety and medical necessity must take priority over preserving any existing panel unchanged.

Patients with complex conditions are frequently given laboratory results without coordination, context, longitudinal comparison, or a clear next step. Healveda Care is building the infrastructure between testing and accountable follow-through.

The Opportunity

The Founding Medical Director Designate will work with Healveda Care’s founder to develop the clinical-governance framework required for a controlled autoimmune laboratory pilot.

During the initial 12-week term, the role is limited to program design, physician-level review, safety planning, clinical-workflow development, and launch-readiness assessment.

The role does not authorize the physician to practice medicine through Healveda Care during the pre-launch period. It does not create a physician-patient relationship, ordering authority, on-call responsibility, or responsibility for patient-specific results.

Following funding, legal review, and operational activation, the physician may be considered for appointment as Healveda Care’s formal Medical Director under a separate agreement. That transition is not automatic and will require mutually acceptable compensation, authority, licensing, malpractice coverage, clinical infrastructure, and professional-entity arrangements.

This is not a ceremonial title. The physician will help determine whether Healveda Care’s proposed model can be activated safely and what must be corrected before the first patient enters the program.

Initial Responsibilities

1. Validate the Candidate Testing Model

Review Healveda Care’s candidate laboratory inventory for clinical appropriateness, medical necessity, duplication, limitations, and patient-safety concerns
Recommend whether each test belongs at baseline, monthly, quarterly, annually, or only when clinically triggered
Identify which tests require individualized justification rather than routine ordering
Define preparation requirements, medication considerations, fasting requirements, collection timing, contraindications, and relevant limitations
Identify tests that may create misleading results when interpreted without sufficient clinical context
Review reference-range, biological-variation, and trend-interpretation considerations
Recommend additions, removals, restrictions, or substitutions when supported by evidence and patient safety
Document the clinical reasoning behind material recommendations

2. Establish Clinical Governance

Develop proposed eligibility, exclusion, and escalation criteria
Define the informed-consent and patient-education requirements
Establish categories for expected, abnormal, urgent, critical, and potentially life-threatening findings
Recommend response and escalation timeframes for each category
Design a closed-loop system showing who receives each result, who reviews it, what action is required, and how completion is confirmed
Define proposed responsibilities for the ordering clinician, Medical Director, laboratory partner, specialist, care coordinator, technology platform, and patient
Identify which actions require licensed clinical judgment
Establish documentation and audit requirements
Define what happens when the responsible clinician cannot be reached
Establish no-launch and stop-work criteria when required safety resources are unavailable

3. Build the Laboratory Pathway

Help convert the candidate testing inventory into proposed order sets
Evaluate Quest, Labcorp, and other qualified laboratory-integration options
Identify questions involving test codes, specimen collection, redraws, reflex testing, turnaround times, cancellations, substitutions, result delivery, and billing
Recommend an appropriate physician-authorization and clinical-review model
Identify state-specific restrictions affecting ordering and result review
Clarify which entity will order tests, maintain medical records, receive results, and manage follow-up
Determine what documentation must support medical necessity
Assess whether Healveda Care will use outside reference laboratories rather than operate a laboratory
Identify when separate laboratory-director qualifications or CLIA responsibilities could apply

The Founding Medical Director Designate will not be represented as the director of a CLIA-certified laboratory unless separately qualified, formally appointed, and covered by an appropriate written agreement.

4. Develop the Outcomes Framework

Define how Healveda Care will evaluate whether a patient is improving, worsening, or remaining unchanged
Establish a monthly review framework incorporating laboratory trends, symptoms, functional status, adverse events, care-plan completion, and specialist recommendations
Identify which laboratory changes are clinically meaningful rather than merely outside a reference range
Define how conflicting recommendations from multiple clinicians should be identified and escalated
Establish how treatment response, treatment burden, safety, and cost should be documented
Develop questions addressing whether an expensive intervention produced a measurable outcome sufficient to justify continuing it
Identify stop, reassess, escalate, and specialist-referral triggers
Establish a process for documenting adverse reactions and treatment-related risk
Define how unresolved findings remain visible until responsibly addressed
Prevent the platform from presenting correlation, automated summaries, or AI-generated observations as medical conclusions

5. Guide Healveda’s Technology Development

Translate the proposed clinical process into requirements for Healveda Care’s product and development teams
Advise on ordering workflows, scheduling, result ingestion, trend tracking, clinical-review queues, alerts, and follow-up closure
Establish guardrails for patient notifications
Define what the patient may see before a clinician reviews a result
Help distinguish informational explanations from medical advice
Review patient-facing laboratory descriptions for accuracy, readability, and safety
Identify access-control, audit-history, and documentation requirements
Define what must happen when data are missing, delayed, duplicated, corrected, or assigned to the wrong patient
Identify failure modes involving notification delivery, clinician availability, and incomplete follow-up
Ensure that technology supports clinical judgment without making unsupported diagnoses or automated treatment decisions

6. Prepare the Controlled Pilot

Help design an initial pilot for approximately 25–50 participants
Define pilot inclusion, exclusion, consent, withdrawal, and escalation requirements
Establish launch-readiness and patient-safety criteria
Define measurements involving test completion, turnaround time, redraws, result delivery, abnormal-result response, specialist referral, and follow-up closure
Define monthly patient-outcome measures
Establish incident-reporting and corrective-action processes
Identify failures requiring the pilot to pause
Recommend the minimum staffing, clinical coverage, technology, laboratory, insurance, and documentation required before activation
Participate in a formal go/no-go readiness review

Initial 90-Day Deliverables

The initial term should produce:

A physician-reviewed testing inventory
A testing-frequency and medical-necessity framework
Patient eligibility, exclusion, and escalation criteria
A proposed laboratory-ordering and clinical-review model
A critical-result and urgent-escalation protocol
A closed-loop follow-up workflow
A clinical responsibility matrix
A laboratory-partner assessment
Clinical and safety requirements for the Healveda Care platform
A monthly outcomes and treatment-value framework
A clinical risk register
A pilot protocol for approximately 25–50 participants
A pilot-readiness and patient-safety checklist
Defined no-launch and pilot-pause criteria
A roadmap for transitioning into live clinical operations
Written identification of all matters requiring healthcare counsel, licensing review, laboratory confirmation, insurance, or operational resolution

These are development deliverables. They do not authorize Healveda Care to begin patient care.

Required Qualifications

MD or DO degree from an accredited institution
Active and unrestricted United States medical license
No unresolved professional restrictions that would prevent the contemplated work
Nevada medical licensure or a realistic pathway to Nevada licensure strongly preferred
Relevant training or experience in rheumatology, internal medicine, family medicine, clinical immunology, endocrinology, pathology, laboratory medicine, or complex chronic care
Strong understanding of laboratory interpretation, medical necessity, clinical escalation, and patient-safety monitoring
Ability to distinguish clinical care from wellness education
Commitment to evidence-informed medicine, patient autonomy, informed consent, and closed-loop follow-up
Ability to document clinical reasoning and identify unsupported assumptions
Willingness to work directly with an early-stage founder while preserving independent medical judgment
Ability to obtain appropriate malpractice coverage before clinical activation
Willingness to participate in legal, licensing, insurance, and compliance review before launch

Particularly Strong Candidates

This opportunity may be especially relevant to:

Physicians seeking meaningful healthcare leadership experience
Licensed physicians completing an MPH, MBA, MHA, or health-informatics program
Physicians with experience designing clinical protocols or care pathways
Physicians with personal or family experience involving autoimmune or chronic illness
Clinicians interested in digital health, laboratory medicine, patient safety, or care-model innovation
Physicians who understand both clinical risk and product development
Physicians who want to help shape a company before its clinical model becomes fixed

Clinical Independence

The physician’s clinical judgment must remain independent.

Healveda Care’s founder may define the company’s mission, patient problem, operational objectives, and existing work. The physician must retain authority over their own medical recommendations and must identify any part of the proposed model that they believe is unsafe, unsupported, outside scope, or inconsistent with professional standards.

No business, financial, product, or growth objective may override patient safety or the physician’s professional obligations.

Important Pre-Launch Boundary

During the initial 12-week term, the Founding Medical Director Designate will not:

Sign patient laboratory orders
Diagnose or treat patients
Establish physician-patient relationships through Healveda Care
Personally review or interpret patient-specific results
Manage urgent or critical findings
Provide on-call clinical coverage
Prescribe medications or treatments
Supervise live clinical personnel
Represent Healveda Care as an active medical practice
Act as a CLIA laboratory director unless separately qualified and appointed
Allow their name or license to be used for clinical operations that they do not control
Approve launch before required safety conditions are satisfied

Those responsibilities may begin only after the appropriate professional structure, written clinical-services agreement, compensation, Nevada licensure, malpractice coverage, laboratory relationships, privacy safeguards, medical-record system, escalation coverage, and operating procedures are active.

Why This Matters

People with complex autoimmune and chronic conditions are frequently forced to coordinate disconnected testing, specialists, treatments, and follow-up on their own.

A laboratory result should not disappear into a patient portal without interpretation, responsibility, or a documented next step. An expensive treatment should not be considered successful merely because it was completed. Every intervention should be examined through measurable outcomes, patient safety, adverse effects, functional improvement, and continued clinical justification.

Healveda Care is building a model in which testing begins a process of accountable follow-through.

The physician who joins during this stage will help define what responsible testing, monthly outcome review, and closed-loop patient safety should look like before the program reaches its first patient.

About the Founder

Sweta Patel is an entrepreneur, investigator, and advocate who built Healveda Care after years of doing the work that failed systems left undone. She preserved evidence, connected critical information, found the right professionals, and pushed serious health questions forward when others would not.

She created Healveda Care to build the coordination and accountability that people with complex health conditions are routinely expected to create for themselves. Her leadership is grounded in persistence, judgment, and the conviction that complexity should never become an excuse for leaving a patient without direction.